Attached are the meeting announcement and arrangements, as well as the
draft agenda, for the next meeting of NCITS T2, to be held March 18-21,
1997 in Marina del Rey, CA. For those of you interested only in the meeting
of the Ad Hoc Group on Ontology, please note that this meeting *follows*
the other T2 ad hoc meetings and opening plenary session this time, taking
place March 20-21 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. This is to allow attendees
to piggy-back this trip with the Stanford Spring Symposium on AI to be held
the following week. Bob Spillers, leader of the AHG-Ontology will be
developing and distributing a more detailed agenda for the AHG Ontology
meeting. For those participating in the work of the Ad Hoc Group on
Conceptual Schema, this meeting is to prepare the US position on Committee
Draft registration of the Conceptual Schema Modelling Facilities (CSMF)
standard. It therefore represents one of the last opportunities for
technical input into this standard, as Final CD and Draft International
Standard registration allow only limited changes to be made for primarily
editorial comments and error correction. So speak up now or....
Please note that there is a cut-off date of March 3 for preferred hotel
rates. Also, given the possible airline strike against American Airlines,
you may want to make your air travel reservations as soon as possible. I
look forward to seeing you at the meetings.
Tony Sarris
Chair, NCITS TC T2
tony@ontek.com
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NCITS TC T2/97-002
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT AND ARRANGEMENTS
Announcing the 40th Meeting of NCITS Technical Committee T2, Information
Interchange & Interpretation
MEETING LOCATION:
University of Southern California (USC)/Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
310-822-1511
Note: The main USC campus is near downtown Los Angeles. The meeting is
*NOT* at that location.
USC ISI opens at 8:30 a.m.
MEETING ATTIRE:
Business casual
MEETING HOST:
Ed Hovy, USC ISI
Refreshments provided courtesy of IBM Corporation (Bob Spillers).
To ensure adequate facilities and refreshments, please notify (by March 14,
1997) the T2 Chair, Mr. Anthony Sarris (714.768.0301 or tony@ontek.com) if
you plan to attend.
NEAREST AIRPORT:
USC ISI is a short drive (5-7 miles) from Los Angeles International Airport
(LAX). Other Los Angeles metro area airports include: Burbank, Ontario and
Orange County/Santa Ana.
RECOMMENDED HOTEL:
MARINA DEL REY HOTEL
13534 Bali Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 301-1000
(Approximately a 5 minute walk to ISI)
Marina Plus rate $99.00
(please use code VSI 008)
Note: This is a special group rate VALID ONLY THROUGH MARCH 3, 1997. Please
book ASAP to reserve your room at this special rate.
ALTERNATIVE HOTEL:
MARINA INTERNATIONAL
4200 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90291
(310) 301-2000
(Approximately a 3 minute taxi/car ride or 10-15 minute walk to ISI)
Corporate (mention ISI) $79.00 Single/Double
DIRECTIONS TO USC ISI:
>From LAX Airport:
Exit from the airport, following the signs that say "Sepulveda North."
Take Sepulveda Blvd. north about 1/2 mile, until Lincoln Blvd. splits off
to the left. Take Lincoln north about 5 miles to Marina del Rey. ISI is
the large black-and-white building at the corner of Lincoln and Mindanao
Way. To enter the parking lot, turn left on Mindanao Way and right on
Admiralty Way, and take the first driveway on the right into the parking
lot. Bring your parking ticket with you to be validated.
>From the 405 (San Diego) freeway:
Take the 405 to the Marina Freeway (90). Follow 90 west until the
freeway ends, at a stoplight. Turn left at the third stoplight, on
Mindanao. Cross Lincoln Blvd. ISI is the large black-and-white building
on your right. Turn right onto Admiralty Way. Take the
first right into the ISI parking lot. Park either in the lot or in the
attached parking structure. Bring your parking ticket with you to be
validated.
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For those not renting a car, you may take either a taxi or an airport
shuttle service (e.g., SuperShuttle) from LAX to your hotel or ISI, or
inquire when booking as to whether the hotel offers (free) shuttle service.
For-fee taxi or shuttle service should be somewhere around $10 (more or
less).
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NCITS TC T2/97-001
National Committee for Information Technology Standardization (NCITS)
[formerly X3]
Technical Committee T2, Information Interchange & Interpretation
40th Meeting
18-21 March 1997
USC Information Sciences Institute - Marina del Rey, CA
DRAFT AGENDA
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(as of 14 February 1997)
PRE-MEETINGS [as authorized at last plenary]
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i. AD HOC GROUP - CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA (Tues. 9:00 a.m. to Wed. 5:00 p.m.)
i.1. Review Committee Draft (CD) ballot version of CSMF standard [SC21
N10768/WG3 N2039]
i.2. Determine ballot position and develop related comments/change proposals
i.3. Develop proposed delegates list for CD editing meeting (July 1997,
London, UK)
ii. AD HOC GROUP - MANAGEMENT (Wed. 5:00-5:30 p.m.)
I. OPENING PLENARY (Thurs. 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.)
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1. ATTENDANCE AND MEMBERSHIP
1.1. Introduction of Participants
1.2. Welcome (USC ISI - Hovy)
1.3. Review of Committee Voting Membership
2. AGENDA APPROVAL
3. MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING
3.1. Approval of Minutes
3.2. Action Item Review
3.3. Schedule of Future Meetings
3.3.1 Joint meeting with L8 in August or October [Sarris to check their
meeting schedule]
4. AD HOC GROUP - MANAGEMENT: REPORT
4.1. Review of Items from Ad Hoc Group on Management
5. AD HOC GROUP - CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA: REPORT
5.1. Proposed CD Ballot position for CSMF standard [SC21 N10768/WG3 N2039]
5.2. Proposed delegates list and instructions for CD editing meeting
6. ADMINISTRATION
6.1. Name change for X3 to NCITS
6.2. Status of SC21 and SC22 IRs
6.3. Draft Revision of T2/SD-002, NCITS TC T2 Procedures
6.4 T2 Annual Report (as presented to NCITS OMC on Jan. 7, 1997) [X3T2/96-030]
7. DOMESTIC LIAISON DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST
7.1. Liaison to TCs H7 and/or T3 Regarding ODP Enterprise Viewpoint
Language NWI
7.2. Liaison to TC L8 regarding propoed new SC14 title and program of work
7.3. Calling Notice for Meta Data Conference (LBNL)
8. OTHER INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND LIAISONS OF INTEREST
8.1 JTC1 re-engineering activities
9. REVIEW OF UPCOMING NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DEADLINES
9.1. CD Ballot for IS 14481 CSMF (closes May 7, 1997)
9.2. CSMF CD Ballot Editing Meeting (July 21-31, 1997, London, UK)
9.3. Defect Ballot for IS 8211:1994 Data Descriptive File (closes May 7, 1997)
9.4. Response to Comments and Final CD Ballot for IS 10967-2 LIA-2 (public
comment period closes April 29, 1997)
II. AD HOC GROUP - SYNTACTIC PROJECTS (no separate meetings)
10. ABSTRACT SYNTAX NOTATION ONE AND ENCODING RULES
10.1. Report on ASN.1 PDAM Ballots [SC21 N10420, 10422-24] (Scott)
10.2. Reaffirmation of ASN.1 PDAM ballot responses (based on Sept. 96
meeting position) [X3T2/96-034, 32, 35 and 33]
11. NUMERIC REPRESENTATION IN CHARACTER STRINGS
11.1. Status report on alignment of ANSI X3.42 and IS 6093 standards (Freeman)
12. DATA DESCRIPTIVE FILE
12.1. Proposed position on Defect Report Ballot for IS 8211:1994 - Data
Descriptive File [SC21 N10767] (Brooks)
13. TRANSFER SYNTAX DESCRIPTION NOTATION
13.1. Report on publication of ANS X.208:1996, Transfer Syntax Description
Notation (TSDN) by ANSI (Billingsley/Freeman)
13.2. Recommendation and plans for internationalization of X.208:1996
(Billingsley/Freeman)
III. AD HOC GROUP - SC22/WG11 PROJECTS (no separate meeting)
14. LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT ARITHMETIC
14.1. Report on responses to first CD Ballot comments [SC22 WG11 N429] and
proposed position on final CD ballot for LIA-2 [SC22 WG11 N427] (Payne)
IV. AD HOC GROUP - KNOWLEDGE INTERCHANGE FORMAT (no separate meeting)
15. KNOWLEDGE INTERCHANGE FORMAT (KIF) [1058-D]
15.1. Proposed submittal of KIF specification as dpANS (Genesereth)
V. AD HOC GROUP - CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS (no separate meeting)
16. CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS (CGs) [1059-D]
16.1. Proposed submittal of CGs specification as dpANS (Sowa)
VI. AD HOC GROUP - ONTOLOGY (Thurs. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
17. ONTOLOGY STANDARDIZATION [refer to Ad Hoc Group Leader (Spillers) for
more detailed agenda]
17.1. Status of current ontology activities and discussion of possible
standardization efforts
VII. CLOSING PLENARY (Fri. 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.)
18. AD HOC GROUP REPORTS AND MOTIONS
18.1. Ad Hoc Group - Management
18.1.1. Document Distribution and NCITS Administration
18.1.2. TC T2 Administration
18.1.3. Domestic Liaison
18.1.4. International Documents and Liaison
18.1.5. Review of Upcoming International Deadlines
18.2. Ad Hoc Group - Syntactic Projects
18.2.1. Abstract Syntax Notation One and Encoding Rules
18.2.2. Numeric Representation in Character Strings
18.2.3. Data Descriptive File
18.2.4. Transfer Syntax Description Notation
18.3. Ad Hoc Group - SC22/WG11 Projects
18.3.1. Lanaguage Independent Arithmetic
18.4. Ad Hoc Group - Conceptual Schema
18.4.1. Conceptual Schema Modeling Facilities (CSMF) [including Conceptual
Schema Specification for Data Interchange and Conceptual Schema for
IRDS/Repository]
18.5. Ad Hoc Group - Knowledge Interchange Format
18.5.1. Knowledge Interchange Format
18.6. Ad Hoc Group - Conceptual Graphs
18.6.1. Conceptual Graphs
18.7. Ad Hoc Group - Ontology
19. REVIEW/PROGRESSION OF AD HOC GROUP OUTPUT DOCUMENTS
20. SCHEDULE OF POST, PRE AND BETWEEN-MEETINGS OF AD HOC GROUPS
21. ACTION ITEM SUMMARY
22. ADJOURN (Fri. 10:00 a.m.)
POST-MEETINGS
VI. POST-MEETINGS
x. AD HOC GROUP - ONTOLOGY (continues Fri. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
x.1. General discussions of ontology efforts